Are driveway drinks allowed

[NotPawPatrolAgain]

With neighbours if sticking to the 2 metre rule?

The rules are not stay indoors.

It is stay at home.

Gardens are fine. Just observe your space if you're out the front.

It's not hard, surely?!

People don’t want to hear it because all of a sudden chatting to the neighbours is terribly important

Are people deliberately obtuse in pretending not to understand why "all of a sudden" this is important, or are they genuinely just thick?

@Deux well yes exactly, the “why would you?” is surely quite obvious.

I’ve been in lockdown for 3.5 weeks now because I was showing symptoms so had to self isolate a little before the official lockdown. I’ve got DH when he’s not at work and the DC so I’m very lucky. I’m a natural introvert too so it’s not so bad but I have reached the point now in the last few days where I have started thinking how nice it would be to see a friend for a coffee or go to the pub with my family and a friend’s family and have a bit of a chat. If I’m at this point I can imagine more sociable people are really going out of their minds now!

Surely we just want to get through this as best we can. Sitting on your own driveway or front lawn and chatting to someone in a garden next door sounds quite nice to me.

Also some of us talked to our neighbours & even were friends with them before this 😱😱😱

Enjoy your own garden if you have one, but don’t be chattering away with the neighbours

Yeah, how DARE you try to have even a modicum of enjoyment during this time of crisis - get back inside and self-flagellate whilst eating tinned sprouts from 1976!

Why would you ?

Er because I’m friends with my neighbors and actually socialize with them in normal circumstance

I think I’ve cracked it . Most MN’ers are antisocial miseries ANYWAY and they are absolutely relishing any excuse to not even open their mouths and talk to anyone for a while.

‘My neighbour said hello to me - should I call 101?’
‘My MIL rang me for a chat - the audacity! how do I tell her I don’t like her or anyone for that matter?’

Yeah, how DARE you try to have even a modicum of enjoyment during this time of crisis - get back inside and self-flagellate whilst eating tinned sprouts from 1976! grin grin

Yeah didn’t you know? You win lockdown by being the most miserable.

Surely the answer is it depends on how long your drive is, how close to the neighbour’s drive, how close other people are so they aren’t annoyed. We could manage to do it comfortably and very safely here. For others with shorter, more crowded driveway areas, it wouldn’t be sensible.
DS ran 3 miles up and down our drive the other day after his “daily exercise”. That is safe to do here, didn’t see anyone else, let alone speak to / breathe near them. For other people, that wouldn’t be a safe, sensible thing to do. Common sense is needed.

Most MN’ers are antisocial miseries ANYWAY and they are absolutely relishing any excuse to not even open their mouths and talk to anyone for a while.

There is definitely some truth in this.

EmmaGellerGreen

Surely the answer is it depends on how long your drive is, how close to the neighbour’s drive, how close other people are so

That’s far too sensible an answer!

When I’m about to go out the front, I slowly ease the door open to check if my neighbours are out, if they are I give a loud tut and slam it closed. I’ve been trying to leave for 10 days now, but my neighbour has been tidying his front and painting his window surrounds etc, I’m on my last tin of chickpeas....I’ll limit myself to a spoonful a day... what if I leave and we make eye contact, or....gulp...say hello??
Do I win??

Well put it this way, you're allowed to sit on your property with a drink, if your neighbour happens to do the same at the same time maintaining a distance of course...probably good for your mh tbh.

It's ok to stand outside and clap isn't it?

Even boris did it whilst sick

If you can do that then remaining on.your property drinking on your driveway/front garden shouldn't be a problem.

Provided of course you can maintain adequate distance

I wouldn't like it because I'm anti-social and don't like enforced jollity.

But it doesn't break the corona rules.

Doggo You can get out safely if you squirt bleach in a wide band down your driveway, then roll through it until you're out of his range (600ft) Don't make eye contact. CV19 can be transmitted by laser beam, so if he's got the sort of eyes that can emit laser beam,you could catch it. You wouldn't know until it was too late.

Yes. Your garden is included in the area you should stay in.

Of course you can sit outside on your own property and of course you can have a drink while doing so. I imagine most people would prefer to sit in their back though rather than on their driveway! I imagine most people’s gardens are considerably more attractive than their driveway

Can people really not see the difference between neighbours interacting on their own properties at a 2m distance and people gathering in a park to sunbathe and barbeque?

Nope. Some people evidently haven't indulged in this degree of self-righteousness or behaviour-policing since their prefect days. And some of the comments about neighbours on these threads have been genuinely illuminating. As far as drama goes I make no apology for saying CV19 must be manna from heaven for these types.

OP, hope you and your neighbours enjoy yourselves and feel a little less isolated for the experience. Please have one for me!

Yes they ate allowed provided you all buy your own drinks

But apparently we can all go on our driveway to have a clap on Thursdays, or go on our driveway to wash the car, or go on our own front garden to mow it. Some of our neighbours sat on their own driveways with their own drinks in the sun yesterday, and spoke to each other from a distance. One of the neighbours is a police officer and he didn't leap into action with his handcuffs.

I think if you give all of your neighbours a FULL rub down with HOT soapy water for 20 seconds whilst singing 'Happy Birthday' through twice AND then coat them head to toe in 70% alcohol hand gel AND put a full gasmask on them, you should be ok.

It really doesn’t matter how nasty many of you continue to be, or how sarcastic... the virus stays in the air and travels in the air. The more people are shedding it outside, the more there is if it circulating. The more the chance of contracting it & passing it on. Many people can’t seem to deal with the facts or the logic, so just lash out at others suggesting that organising neighbourly chat sessions over a fence/driveway is not a good idea.

It has been tested, it lingers and as expected floats in the air, further than 2m. The heavy droplets mostly drop within the 2m but not the lighter particles. The virus attaches to ALL of the stuff you exhale, not just the heavy droplets.

I live alone. Of course I’d like to see family & friends, even the neighbours would do (they’re a good laugh usually) but we aren’t arranging little chat sessions because we know all of these interactions increase the opportunity for the virus to spread & we value people’s lives more than ‘a chat’

It’s not about ‘what’s permitted’ (Govt are not aiming to save the most lives, they’re aiming for economic/NHS balancing) it’s about people looking at the science & doing what’s right. Saying hello to your neighbour if you’re both out the front going out is one thing, chatting over a period of time is quite another.

Living alone is no excuse. I actually have more sympathy for people in flats with children. Living alone feels comparatively easy!!

Of course your allowed on your own property to sit with a drink , and your neighbours can do the same. Just don't share drinks , pass glasses etc. Observe the two metre rule

Oh, and I've walked a couple of houses up and stood chatting to the police officer from the end of his drive too, and he didn't arrest me/fine me for twenty steps of non essential travel then either!

People are in more danger going to the supermarket or the corner store picking up food and prescriptions.

I'm in more danger at school where I'm on the rota to look after other KWs' children.

Sitting in my garden or on my drive or outside my front door chatting with neighbors next door or across the street is beyond safe in comparison. We're waaaay farther apart than 2 meters in all these scenarios, AND we're at home.